Job Announcements, News

Job: Data Manager & Project Coordinator, Digital Library of the Middle East

From the ad: The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) project is an international effort, gathering digital resources of Middle East and North African (MENA) material from providers around the world. This initiative will create the first seamlessly interoperable, large-scale digital library of cultural artifacts from the region. Working as part of Stanford Libraries’ […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship, European Languages Division, Harvard

From the ad: Reporting to the Head of the European Languages Division (ELD), the Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship will initiate and lead the ELD’s digital projects. As a member of a team of librarians emphasizing collections in the humanities and social sciences in Western European and Slavic languages, providing collaborative support for the Division’s digital […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Announcing 2018 Deadline for NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program

From the announcement: I’m pleased to announce that the next deadline for the NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program will be September 26, 2018. The Humanities Open Book Program is designed to make outstanding out-of-print humanities books available to a wide audience by making them open access. NEH and Mellon are soliciting proposals from academic presses, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Slavery in the Machine, sx archipelagos

From the CFP: sx archipelagos is now accepting submissions for our upcoming special section “Slavery in the Machine,” guest edited by Jessica Marie Johnson. This special section aims to highlight scholarship situated at the intersection of technology and hemispheric American slavery. Topics may include but are not limited to: black code studies through a hemispheric […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Web Developer 2, University of Houston Libraries

From the ad: The University of Houston Libraries is seeking a talented individual to fill its Web Developer 2 position. This developer will work with an agile team to develop, maintain, and integrate the University of Houston Libraries Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). They will provide advanced web skills in the areas of interface design, […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: TPH Co-Editor/NCPH Digital Media Editor

From the ad: We are pleased to invite applications for a full-time staff position at MARCH, located in the Cooper Street Historic District on the campus of Rutgers-Camden. The primary responsibility of the Public Historian in Residence will be to serve as co-editor of The Public Historian, the journal of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and as Digital Media […]

News, Resources

Resource: Altair for visualization in Python

From the post: With Altair, you can spend more time understanding your data and its meaning. Altair’s API is simple, friendly and consistent and built on top of the powerful Vega-Lite visualization grammar. This elegant simplicity produces beautiful and effective visualizations with a minimal amount of code. Read more here.